Proactive endeavors to foster organizational performance via a bottom-up approach: Research of job crafting from a dynamic process perspective

Subjects: Psychology >> Management Psychology submitted time 2023-04-22

Chen, Zhijun Ji, Shunhong Zhang, Huihua

Abstract： By proactively changing and crafting their jobs, employees can effectively compensate for the lack of motivation due to a top-down approach adopted by firms. Therefore, our research focuses on job crafting by exploring how to enhance organizational performance via job crafting behaviors enacted by individuals and work teams. First, drawing on the action theory, we flesh out the nature of job crafting behavior and propose a dynamic process model. Accordingly, we elaborate on the dynamic process via which job crafting occurs such that it has interactive implications at the individual and team levels at the same time. Next, we explore how individual job crafting shapes individual job performance via two distinct mediating mechanisms. Last, drawing on a team process view, we delineate how team job crafting contributes to team performance. By generating a dynamic process perspective of job crafting, we provide theoretical guidance and practical implications for organizations to diffuse and consolidate job crafting into a generalizable work model.

YES

 Hits 1372  Downloads 269  Comment

Digital job crafting and its positive impact on job performance: The perspective of individual-task-technology fit

Subjects: Psychology >> Management Psychology submitted time 2023-01-30

Shi, Yanwei Xie, Julan Wang, Yani Zhang, Nan

Abstract：

With the booming development of digital economy and digital technology, digital transformation has changed from an "optional" choice for some leading enterprises to a "mandatory" requirement for more enterprises. However, many companies face several problems in the digital transformation process such as slow performance growth and insufficient transformation sustainability. Among possible reasons for these problems, the misfit between employees' digital competencies, digital technologies, and digital job demands (i.e., individual-task-technology misfit) is the main one. Therefore, understanding how employees can proactively change the digital job environment and increase individual-task-technology fit to improve job performance has both theoretical and practical implications. Based on the job crafting research and individual-task-technology fit theory, this project proposes a new concept called digital job crafting and explore the mechanisms for the effect of digital job crafting on employees' job performance. Meanwhile, from the perspectives of colleagues, leaders, and organizational structure, this project will examine digital job crafting support, digital leadership, and
organizational formalization as potential boundary conditions of the relationship between digital job crafting and job performance. We intend to test our hypotheses using focus group interviews, case studies, multi-source and multi-wave surveys, and daily diary surveys. This project will contribute to expanding digital job research from a proactive adaptation perspective and initiate new research themes for job crafting research. It also provides theoretical guidance and practical intervention plans for employees to proactively adapt to digital transformation and gain digital intelligence dividends.

Peer Review Status:Awaiting Review

 Hits 929  Downloads 307  Comment